4th Anniversary of Las Vegas Unity Festival
June 22 marks the fourth anniversary of the 2019 Peace Starts With Me Unity Festival in Las Vegas — a powerful event held at the MGM Grand Hotel featuring True Mother’s keynote address, messages from Bishops Noel Jones and Hezekiah Walker, and a 500-voice choir.
The Peace Starts With Me global movement was first launched by True Mother in July 2017, touching the lives of tens of millions of people around the world since as they commit to peace within themselves, their families, and their communities.
On this fourth anniversary of the festival, we remember True Mother’s urgent call for all people to center on God, our Heavenly Parent, in order to usher in an era of lasting peace. Below is an excerpt from her keynote address.
God, the owner of Heaven, created all things in His image, and He created a man and a woman to be humanity’s ancestors. God gave humanity a period of growth and waited for the moment He would see they had matured, and He’d be able to say, “You have grown in a beautiful way.” However, human beings have been looking out for only themselves. The ambition that they could become like God grew in them. With that ambition today, fallen human beings have emerged that have nothing to do with the Creator, God...
So far, human beings have lived in ignorance generally and in ignorance of God and that condition brought about today’s destruction [of the planet] and hasn’t maintained well the beautiful plan that God originally had for Creation. This has turned to destruction today. Climate change and pollution now afflict this planet. Unimaginable diseases and problems occur because of pollution and it’s a fact that in the future humanity could reach its limit for survival. In other words, humanity’s future is not visible.
What shall we do in that case? We must strive to ensure that Heavenly Parent’s children will stand up and solve all these difficulties and problems so that the eternal Creation will last in the world that the Creator, Heavenly Parent, originally created. We must strive to sustain further the eternal Creation.
I know there are many problems in this country, too. The politicians and the economically powerful should also work out a campaign to serve God, the Creator, our Heavenly Parent. Only through a movement to attend God can human beings and the planet be healed. Won’t the representative democratic Christian country—the United States—take the lead? It’s the only way for them to open wide a future for our beloved second-generation members, our children. Let’s solve the problems together with me, the only begotten daughter, True Mother and with the Blessed families, and of course, with the clergy members and the citizens of this country. Let’s make America beautiful, a beautiful earthly Kingdom of Heaven.